Read more Siberia stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/2205/siberia.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:52:33 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/68383/the-worlds-7-most-remote-destinations.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagForget the Seven Wonders of the World. WebUrbanist takes a look at seven places that make you wonder why people ever settled there: St. Kilda, Scotland: Although this archipelago is known for 16-foot waves and wind speeds up to 130mph, humans called it home for 2,000 years—until 1930,...http://www.newser.com/story/68383/the-worlds-7-most-remote-destinations.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 06 Sep 2009 12:46:20 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66097/putin-trip-is-tough-guy-photo-op.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagVladimir Putin spent his vacation in southern Siberia swimming, climbing trees, and riding a horse bareback—all while shirtless. Though state news agencies portrayed the Russian prime minister’s trip as a vacation, the series of tough-guy photographs that emerged make it hard not to think he had a motive beyond...http://www.newser.com/story/66097/putin-trip-is-tough-guy-photo-op.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 04 Aug 2009 16:42:45 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60251/ufo-saved-earth-in-suicide-mission-russian-scientist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAlien spacecraft crashed into a giant meteor 100 years ago to stop it from hitting Earth, according to a Russian scientist. Most scientists say an exploding meteorite caused 1908’s Tunguska event, which flattened 80 million trees across 100 miles. But researcher Yuri Labvin says crystals found in sparsely populated Siberia...http://www.newser.com/story/60251/ufo-saved-earth-in-suicide-mission-russian-scientist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 27 May 2009 14:42:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60243/5-year-old-russian-girl-raised-by-cats-dogs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRussian police have removed a feral girl from the home where she was raised by cats and dogs, the Times of London reports. Natasha, 5, who mimics the animals rather than speaking, has never been outside her family's unheated apartment. Her grandparents and father also lived there, but she had...http://www.newser.com/story/60243/5-year-old-russian-girl-raised-by-cats-dogs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 27 May 2009 14:04:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57906/baby-mammoth-gives-up-secrets.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA nearly perfectly preserved 37,000-year-old baby mammoth is giving up tantalizing secrets about her species, scientists report. The creature, dubbed Lyuba by researchers, still sports clumps of hair and eyelashes, according to the Telegraph . Scientists have been able to examine stomach contents and the mineral makeup of the bones...http://www.newser.com/story/57906/baby-mammoth-gives-up-secrets.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 03 May 2009 8:50:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/44241/jagr-happy-rich-in-siberia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJaromir Jagr is far from New York, playing hockey in Siberia, yet he tells the Atlantic he’s happy in the outpost of Omsk. Indeed, his $11 million salary helps cushion the blow of not being re-signed by the Rangers. And "in Russia, you have the real freedom, which is not...http://www.newser.com/story/44241/jagr-happy-rich-in-siberia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 07 Dec 2008 18:38:48 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/35548/kremlin-foe-denied-bid-for-parole.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Russian court has rejected Mikhail Khodorkovsky's request for parole on Friday, ordering the jailed oil tycoon to serve out the remainder of his sentence in a ruling his lawyer called politically motivated. Khodorkovsky, the former head of Yukos oil company and once Russia's richest man, was sentenced to 8...http://www.newser.com/story/35548/kremlin-foe-denied-bid-for-parole.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 22 Aug 2008 10:40:18 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/33886/eclipse-draws-15k-to-siberia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagProspects of rare total solar eclipse have drawn thousands of sky-watchers to the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, where the moon’s passage between the earth and sun will create 140 seconds of darkness at 5:45 pm local time today. Hotels in the city—Russia’s third-largest—are fully booked, reports the...http://www.newser.com/story/33886/eclipse-draws-15k-to-siberia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 31 Jul 2008 23:01:10 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/24854/thawing-arctic-could-set-off-methane-climate-bomb.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagClimate scientists meeting this week in Vienna are contemplating a terrible prospect—the release of billions of tons of methane gas from the Arctic Ocean, Der Spiegel reports. Methane, 20 times more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, lies frozen in gas hydrates on the ocean floor, but rising...http://www.newser.com/story/24854/thawing-arctic-could-set-off-methane-climate-bomb.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 17 Apr 2008 16:08:08 CDT